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The last hotel night and activities for the 3-day “post-TBEX Europe 2012 Girona, Spain” Costa Brava Tourism sponsored tour for a van full of eight travel bloggers was at the spa hotel Balneari Prats in Caldes de Malavella. Balneari Prats Hotel & Spa, Caldes de Malavella The small town of Caldes de Malavella, population under…
Covered in dust after an hour riding around the hills on dirt roads in the back of a 4-wheel drive was not the condition I expected to be in for my arrival at a luxury hotel. It was an unexpected surprise to visit a hotel gem after visiting the 2,500 year old Iberian archaeological site…
Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava is located about 75 km north of Barcelona, Spain. This town of 40,000 residents has one of the most popular beaches of the Costa Brava. Good morning, Lloret de Mar. Main beach at 10:00am, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain. Late September air temperature 21 C / 70 F. The…
The witches brew of storm clouds lingered over the mountain ridges of Montseny National Park, west of the coastal hills to the north of Barcelona. We met our driver on the road at the base of a 2,000 ft. mountain near Arbucies and loaded into a Range Rover for the drive up a dirt road winding…
The Catalan terminology for the meals part of our Costa Brava tour was referred to as gastronomy. This is the science of food eating. I like the sound of gastronomy more than cuisine. Typically I only occasionally eat in restaurants. Food is expensive and when traveling I try and eat heavily at breakfast and lunch,…
When I mentioned I was interested in hotels while touring Tossa de Mar, our guide said we would be walking near a two-star boutique hotel in town. Hotel Diana is currently ranked by TripAdvisor.com as #4 of 42 hotels in Tossa de Mar. In my article Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava- Blue Paradise I mentioned…
My expectations of Costa Brava were built up around picture images of a great seascape on rugged hills overlooking the Balearic Sea on the northeast coast of Spain. I had been in Catalonia for a week and the only seascape I had seen was a city boardwalk along Barcelona’s seafront. Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava…
Spain was a Salvador Dali-like experience for me of time moving like melting clocks through a landscape of history, culture, and modern life. The persistence of memory from 12 days wandering or being guided through Catalonia left me with a trail of traveler impressions. My wife explains learning in this way to 5-year-old children she…
The sea was a bit too rough for kayaking today and an alternate excursion offered nordic walking from Lloret de Mar for an hour on a paved coastal path along the cliffs. Eight bloggers with cameras skipped out on the nordic aspect of the walk which involves using poles to work your arms. We were…
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